North Carolina-Free Spirit

Highland Scottish blood declares me the proud Clan Morrison but with a Dutch mother who inspired me to be an artist in her support of my drawing and her death. Many artists like the autonomous nature of Southerners of which I am one of those artist. North Carolina seceded twice from the Union, the first time under President Jackson. I have a lot of friends from North Carolina. One’s mom was a seamstress received a large order only to find that it was for Klan robs, but they were the most polite customers. I myself rode through the state once in the snow through smoky mountain National Park. That was the year (and the storm) that closed down Atlanta with the blizzard. Being from the marsh and Piny Woods, the Smoky Mountains were a new thrill and the snow improved them.  I now live near the mountains.

The mythology of North Carolina connects the earliest times to the Modern Age. The Talking Feather with the seven points star shows the Cherokee who were the first native North Carolinian. (The seven pointed star is the crest of the Cherokee Nation of which there is a large reservation in North Carolina.)The Tri-cornered hat with the Fir branch (this marked the North Carolina militia during the revolution from England.) represents the number of battles from the American Revolution that were in North Carolina. Everything rests on the secession flag of that state  with which declared independence from the United State,  the same calendar day as the her revolt from England, May 20^th . (It should also be noted that the Southern Plantation System started in North Carolina.) The Tiger Shell is the state shell as the state has a large beach part of which is haunted by the “Flying Dutchman.” But it has always been a coastal region as the state fossil is the Shark’s Tooth seen just above the word “May.” The Tiger Lilly on the Tri-corn hat is the state flower. The Cardinal is the state bird. The fight wings below the brim of the hat are for the first flight by the Wright brothers happening in Kittyhawk. I drew this picture a little over a year ago.

The sadist tale of Native American sand Angles is the Gnadenhutten Massacre. The Moravian Native Americans who had previously been ex-pulsed out by the English but returned were burned alive in their church “Cumbiya” by the Pennsylvania militia during the American Revolution in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. The Monument says “Here triumphed in death ninety Christian Indians, March 8, 1782.” The slanted foreheads are accurate to a etching of a native American skeleton from the 1830’s. The two survivors were granted the first reservation when George Washington heard of the militia’s barbarity and making Ohio still having the only Praying Indian Nation reservation. I named this piece in their honor “Come by hear, my Lord” originally for a benefit action but did not sell and email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com if you want to buy it.